Maintenance in progress

staff at the us national institute of allergy and infectious diseases were instructed to strip biodefense and pandemic-preparedness wording from the agency's public website while measles, chikungunya and avian flu reporting was ongoing. separately, the cdc narrowed the scope of its foodborne-illness surveillance program during a period of large salmonella and listeria outbreaks. the unusual part is the direction: public-facing language and detection capacity contracting at the same time case counts are being reported.

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